Schools (Stage 10)
a)
- the first school
1. At what age would a wealthy Roman boy start going to school?
2. How many teachers were there normally at the first school?
3. Was it free?
4. Was it compulsory? (Did children have to go?)
5. a) Did girls go to this type of school?
b) What would they learn at home?
6. Why might two slaves accompany a boy to school? (2)b) - writing equipment
1. Describe tabulae.
Describe a stilus. A stick made of ................ or .................... or ...........................
Why was it flat at one end? .............................................
2. What is papyrus? What is it made from?
How did the Romans write on it?
With ...... and ............................
How do we know now that some inks then
were very good?
c) - the second school
1. At what age would a boy go to a second school?
2. What was the teacher at such a school called in Latin?
3. What was the main subject studied there?
4. Which two languages would Quintus speak fluently by the time he left this school?
5. Which Greek poet composed the Iliad and the
Odyssey?
d) - the rhetor
1. At what age would a boy leave the second school and start going to this teacher?
2. What was the useful skill that this
teacher trying to teach him?
e) All three levels
1. Give four subjects which you study but Quintus did not study at all. (not languages!)
2. Quintus did some subjects which you do, but he did only very little of them: give three. (not languages!)